Dear All,
I'm feeling a bit left out. Yesterday a whole load of patch announcements
arrived, including one for the serious bind security hole (fixed by SuSE
back in January). These announcements mention every OS from 4.0D upwards
*except* 4.0E. Is 4.0E some kind of poor relation?
The only reason we upgraded from 4.0D to 4.0E was because at the time we
were recommended to by Compaq in order to continue getting support (yes, I
know, 4.0E isn't fully supported either any more. But there should at lest
be security fixes).
Here is a typical extract from one of the announcements:
IMPACT: Multiple Potential Security Issues in BIND
(X-REF: CERT CA-2000-20 & CERT CA-2001-02 )
Versions Affected: Compaq Tru64 UNIX V4.0d, V4.0f, V4.0g,
V5.0, V5.0a, V5.1
Versions Not Affected: TCP/IP Services for Compaq OpenVMS
There have also been absolutely no patches to 4.0E since March 2000 which
is rather surprising. Does anyone know whether we can still expect to
receive security fixes for 4.0E?
Thanks,
Bob
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Bob Vickers R.Vickers_at_cs.rhul.ac.uk
Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
WWW:
http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/home/bobv
Phone: +44 1784 443691
Received on Wed Feb 28 2001 - 10:22:13 NZDT